On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Paulo J. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am a Python beginner, reading through 2.6 tutorial. I am wondering >> where are structures? > > I'm wondering a more fundamental question: What are structures? That > is, what do *you* mean by that term; without knowing that, an answer > isn't likely to be meaningful. > >> […] structures are something like classes with only public methods > > Care to say more about what they are, not what they're like? >
Well, I guess that everyone pretty much gets since it exists in every other language as struct, or define-structure, or whatever is the syntax. Still, answering your rhetoric question, a structure is way to gather information by fields and those fields are referenced by name. The fact that python 2.6 has now named tuples is a breath of fresh air! > -- > \ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Yes Brain, but | > `\ if our knees bent the other way, how would we ride a bicycle?" | > _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | > Ben Finney > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocmatos at gmail.com Webpage: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
